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FRAMING TILES.

No. 595,259. Patented De0.7,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OLIN I'I. BASQUIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE LUXFER PRISMPATENTS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

FRAMING TlLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,259, dated December7, 1897.

Application filed September 11, 1897. Serial No. 651,349. (No model.)

T all whom t ma/ z/ concern: shown, for example, by the dotted line DQ aBe it known that I, OLIN II. BASQUIN, a citilarge amount of the lightwill be obstructedzen of the United States, residing at Chicago, forexample, the light between the lines B2 in the county of Cook and Stateof Illinois,have and B3. In order to avoid the obstruction of inventedcertain new and useful Improvelight by these intervening pieces, I bevelthe ments in Framing Tile Sections, of which the edges of theprism-lights and place these 4o following is a specification.cross-pieces at an angle thereto, so that they My invention relates toframing tiles and will be substantially parallelwith the rays of thelike, and has for its object to provide a light, as shown, for example,by the f ull lines 1o new and improved construction whereby a in Fig. 2.

series of transparent tiles, for example, may My invention may beapplied to any con- 45 be bound together. struction or arrangement oftiles or prism- My invention is illustrated in the accomlights, as, forexample, when diamond-shaped panying drawings, whereinlights are usedand placed on end, as shown Figure 1 is a View of a prism-plaie embodyinFig. o. I have not attempted to illustrate ing my invention. Fig. 2 is asection on line all the uses of my invention, for such uses 5o 2 2,Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows a modiiied construcwill be readily understood fromthe foregoing tion. Fig. 4 is a section on line I 4f, Fig. o.description. I therefore do not wish to be Like letters refer to likeparts throughout limited in any manner by the construction 2o theseveral iigures. shown.

My invention is applicable to the framing I claim- 5 5 of anytransparent tiles, but I have illustrated A plate made up of a series oftransparent it in connection with prism-lights. tile-sections boundtogether and separated by In the drawings I have shown a series ofintervening strips, some of the edges of said prism-lights A connectedin a frame so as to sections being beveled, so that when placed formaprism-plate, the prism-lights being septogether the spaces between themare in- 6o arated by strips of opaque material. XVhen clined, theintervening strips being placed in the prism-plate is placed in thewindow or these inclined spaces and so positioned as to other aperturethrough which the light enallow the light to pass without being obters,the light coming from the sky strikes structed thereby.

the plate at an angle, as illustrated, forex- OLIN II. BASQUIN. ample,at B. It will therefore be seen that 'Witnessesz if the interveningstrips C between the prism- DONALD M. CARTER,

lights are placed substantially horizontal, as BERTHA C. SIMS.

